AFP, TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday endorsed the country’s nuclear deal with world powers but said “ambiguities” in the agreement must be guarded against. Khamenei said he had approved the decision of Iran’s top security committee, the…

AFP, TACHILEIK, Myanmar: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi accused some of her opponents Wednesday of being “dishonest” in their campaigning ahead of crunch polls that her party is expected to sweep if the vote is free and fair. In some of her most pointed criticisms yet of her…

AFP, MANILA: Two Chinese diplomats were killed and a third was injured in a gun attack at a restaurant in the central Philippine city of Cebu on Wednesday, police said. The deputy consul and the finance officer for the Chinese consulate in Cebu were killed, and the consul general was wounded, national…

AFP, VATICAN CITY: The Vatican on Wednesday dismissed an Italian media report that Pope Francis has a treatable brain tumour as “unfounded and seriously irresponsible.” Quotidiano Nazionale (QN), the newspaper which made the claim, said it stood by its story that a “small dark spot”…

AP, New Delhi: Government investigators have found the fatal mob attack of a Muslim man over rumours he slaughtered a cow was premeditated, and not a spontaneous act stemming from heightened emotion and religious devotion as many Hindu nationalist politicians have claimed. The killing of Mohammed Akhlaq…

AFP, TUNIS: UN envoy Bernardino Leon insisted Wednesday that efforts to clinch a political deal to end the turmoil in Libya will carry on although several parties have rejected his proposals. Leon’s remarks come a day after Western and Arab states issued a joint declaration urging rival sides…

AFP, PARIS: The UN’s cultural body approved a resolution from a group of Arab states on Wednesday criticising Israel for failing to protect heritage sites and rebuild regions destroyed by war. The final version of the draft resolution was changed at the last minute to remove a controversial clause…